WillDekkard
01-31-2010, 03:59 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- January 31st
* 314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
* 1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
* 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy ****es is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
* 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
* 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
* 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
* 1848 – John C. Fremont court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders.
* 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
* 1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
* 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
* 1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
* 1891 – The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
* 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
* 1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
* 1917 – World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
* 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
* 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
* 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
* 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
* 1943 – German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles.
* 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
* 1944 – World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
* 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
* 1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
* 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
* 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
* 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
* 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
* 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
* 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
* 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
* 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
* 1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
* 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
* 1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
* 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
* 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
* 2000 – Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
* 2001 – In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and acquits another Lybian citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
* 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
* 2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
* 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
- January 31st
* 314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
* 1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
* 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy ****es is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
* 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
* 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
* 1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
* 1848 – John C. Fremont court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders.
* 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
* 1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
* 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
* 1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
* 1891 – The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
* 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
* 1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
* 1917 – World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
* 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
* 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
* 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
* 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
* 1943 – German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles.
* 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
* 1944 – World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
* 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
* 1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
* 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
* 1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
* 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
* 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
* 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
* 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
* 1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
* 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
* 1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
* 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
* 1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
* 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
* 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
* 2000 – Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
* 2001 – In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and acquits another Lybian citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
* 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
* 2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
* 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.